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Human activity, principally the burning of fossil fuel. This has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by about 40% so far. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which means it traps the heat from the sun at the earth's surface for longer than would otherwise be the case.

Primitive people attributed natural phenomena like rain, thunder, volcanic eruptions etc to gods, but thanks to a few centuries of scientific discoveries we now know better. You would too, if you spent more time studying science and less poring over the words of an obvious fraud. Nothing that occurs in the natural world requires a god to explain it.

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Regarding your questions about Angelina Imden and the golem Pontius Pilate, you still do not understand that the spirit of Ama and the “medium” Ka Apaz are two distinct separate entities. Most of what I share to you are what Ama said verbatim.

We do understand that you believe they are two separate entities. We don't -and you have provided no evidence that they aren't the same person.

What is causing global warming? What are there more tornadoes in the US? And massive. And frightening. Why are hurricanes more into higher categories?

When I was growing up in the Philippines in the 1950s and 1960s, the typhoons were usually about 100 kph. Now, we have more than 200 kph. What’s going on?

Have you considered asking a meteorologist or perhaps physicist who studies climates? This is some pretty straight forward science here. Some silly little superstition would hardly add value to anyone's understanding of climate change.

You don't need to do that, either. If you click on the little arrow button next to the name, it'll take you directly to the post you are quoting.

Thank you for your suggestion. I have deleted also the name of the poster and the message number that I am responding to because, as you say, “the little button next to the name, it’ll take you directly to the post you are quoting.” They are for my own use anyway. If anyone is interested to see the post that I am responding to, they can click the little red button. Usually, I respond to the whole post.

I've never experience a super typhoon and hope I never will.
But it would never occur to me to attribute divine characteristics to a natural phenomenon.

Thank you, pakeha, for providing the info about super typhoons in the Philippines.

I was born and grew up in Manila. I attended the university from mid-1960s and married and lived in Laguna province, 65 km from Manila.

I did not even hear most of the typhoons that was mentioned in your link maybe because they might have occurred faraway from where I lived.

Notice that most of the super typhoons in the link occurred after 1979 when the prophecies were revealed. What Ama told us is that “What is happening to our neighbor will occur in our home too.” I think it means that typhoons and flooding and landslides and other calamities may be occurring faraway from our place will occur also in our place. Who are our neighbors? I think they may be people in other provinces or countries.

If we don’t experience one calamity, it may be some other kind of calamity. We may be spared of typhoons or hurricanes but we may experience drought or bush fires or tornadoes or earthquakes which God can have a hand. Not with humans though because God has given him the wisdom to control his own destiny.

Of course you do. You were practically salivating over the idea that you would get 10 wives, a free house and a petting zoo and university just up the road, and that FIVE BILLION people would die.

You wanted FIVE BILLION people to die. And now you don't even appear to understand why people on this and your other threads think that your desire for this to happen is probably the most revolting thing that they (we) have ever heard. So your "I don't like war" thingy is utter crap.

You did nothing but express your disappointment that the Olympic Games prophesy was a complete abject failure, and continued to hope that WWIII would happen soon. And you are still hoping for WWIII will happen. Buy your own house.

Norm

The spirit of Ama has been telling us about this war maybe since the 1980s. On 1986-06-13, He even related to us about that war where a neighbor played the song “Since I don’t have you” in the background.

This is one thing that I learned in life. As long as a person lives, he needs a roof over his head. I am 65 and retired. I have a home paid so I don’t have to work to pay for my accommodation. I do not expect to be homeless.

Regarding women and sex, I don’t have any desire for them. Sex is just a fleeting bliss. I seek something that will last forever even when I have passed over – and this is with the only true God.

You really would have to be very, very stupid not to realise Astreja's opinion or mine, or anyone elses on this thread.

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I'm currently playing with the audio files in Audacity. Other than minor differences in pitch and cadence, all three voices (Aristeo, Ka Apaz and Ama) are nondescript and have very few distinguishing characteristics.

Recording quality is extremely poor, with multiple, sometimes overlapping voices in some samples. That said, I think that the voice of "Ama" is entirely ordinary and can almost certainly be attributed to a human rather than a god. I'm still working out what tools and methodology I need to analyze the samples in more detail, but currently I think that the voice of Ka Apaz simply isn't different enough from the voice of Ama to exclude her as a suspect. If she dropped from a head voice into a chest voice, reduced pitch by about half an octave and spoke more slowly, that would give a good approximation of the Ama voice.

It is also quite possible that an unnamed male accomplice provided the voice of Ama via a wireless transmitter, with the receiver hidden in the hair of Ka Apaz or concealed under the covering she used when "channelling" Ama.

From what I have heard so far, I hear nothing supernatural or even unusual in the recordings. I hear only ordinary human voices, and am reasonably certain at this point that Ama is indeed bogus and a purely human construction.

Threads, I remember that. There was one I saw in the early eighties too, what was that called? We watched it at school and it was well scary.

Edited: having googled, I'm almost certain it was The War Game, as I remember at least some of it being in B&W and the description of the action accords with my memory. It's from the 60s but was banned for a while for being too terrifying.

That movie scarred me (no pun intended) for a long time, I saw it when it first came out. Absolutely brutal movie, and brilliant.

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The spirit of Ama has been telling us about this war maybe since the 1980s. On 1986-06-13, He even related to us about that war where a neighbor played the song “Since I don’t have you” in the background.

And you wanted WWIII to happen. You hoped for it, you probably prayed for it. Skirting around the issue by ignoring it completely does not sit well with those of us (all of us) that can see what you have posted this year.

As I said, and as you ignored, you wanted 5 Billion people to die, and were looking forward to it regardless of any other outcome.

Can't you even see that what you posted relating to this this makes you look like a totally revolting SOB? Are you immune to acting like a human being? Is being sick a requirement of following whateverhernameis? Are evil thoughts, and dreams like yours (YAY! 5 Billion are going to die!) a requirement to follow your stupid old hag?

I'm currently playing with the audio files in Audacity. Other than minor differences in pitch and cadence, all three voices (Aristeo, Ka Apaz and Ama) are nondescript and have very few distinguishing characteristics.

Recording quality is extremely poor, with multiple, sometimes overlapping voices in some samples. That said, I think that the voice of "Ama" is entirely ordinary and can almost certainly be attributed to a human rather than a god. I'm still working out what tools and methodology I need to analyze the samples in more detail, but currently I think that the voice of Ka Apaz simply isn't different enough from the voice of Ama to exclude her as a suspect. If she dropped from a head voice into a chest voice, reduced pitch by about half an octave and spoke more slowly, that would give a good approximation of the Ama voice.

It is also quite possible that an unnamed male accomplice provided the voice of Ama via a wireless transmitter, with the receiver hidden in the hair of Ka Apaz or concealed under the covering she used when "channelling" Ama.

From what I have heard so far, I hear nothing supernatural or even unusual in the recordings. I hear only ordinary human voices, and am reasonably certain at this point that Ama is indeed bogus and a purely human construction.

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I'm not familiar with audacity, but I'm assuming you could use the pitch shifter on Ka Apaz's voice and see if it approximates "Ama's"

Please ask Astreja regarding the voices that I provided, whether the spirit of Ama’s voice is just being faked by Ka Apaz or not.

Hi, PC.
I've listened to the recordings and to be honest, I hear nothing supernatural, even in the 'whistles' tapes. I suggest you listen to tapes of other mediums to hear just how mediums work.
It's a nasty business, that, feigning to 'communicate' with the 'other side'.

Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader

Thank you, pakeha, for providing the info about super typhoons in the Philippines. ...
Notice that most of the super typhoons in the link occurred after 1979 when the prophecies were revealed. What Ama told us is that “What is happening to our neighbor will occur in our home too.” I think it means that typhoons and flooding and landslides and other calamities may be occurring faraway from our place will occur also in our place. Who are our neighbors? I think they may be people in other provinces or countries.

If we don’t experience one calamity, it may be some other kind of calamity. We may be spared of typhoons or hurricanes but we may experience drought or bush fires or tornadoes or earthquakes which God can have a hand. Not with humans though because God has given him the wisdom to control his own destiny.

No worries, PC.
It was interesting to hunt out that data.
Again, associating natural phenomena with supernatural causes is simply ridiculous, so please take the time to learn about meteorological events.

Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader

... I seek something that will last forever even when I have passed over – and this is with the only true God.

I can honour that belief.
So why do you give credence to a medium?
This is clearly forbidden by the bible.
Very clearly.

But the one's that offer no time deadline can be counted as successes because, of course, they will happen at some point in the future. So we can dismiss trivialities like the failure of WWIII to disrupt the 2012 Olympic Games and focus on the successes such as the assurance that a cat will give birth to a human baby, which we know is true because it hasn't happened yet.

Also, I don't remember PC stating that these prophecies have to happen on Earth. Maybe they came true in the Zorg galaxy.

...Who will kill the Filipinos? According to Ama, their fellow Filipinos. Killing fields. The conquerors will ask the survivor: ‘Do you believe in God?’ If you answer yes, you will get killed. The Muslims will ask as well: ‘Will you convert to Islam?’ If you answer no, you will get killed.’

So, not just communists but muslims as well?
Do you really not see the contradiction there, PC?
This medium's scare mongering swings between anti-muslim and anti-communist ranting.

Originally Posted by PeaceCrusader

...He also said that one day, the Filipinos will be surprised to find that they are surrounded by communists. I think it will be the Filipino communists, under the direction of the Chinese who are also communists, who will interrogate the survivors.

Ama said that the Chinese will leave the Philippines after a few years, and the Philippines will not be touched by any foreign powers anymore.

This really sounds like the outdated scare tactics of a local politician than anything else.
Neither PC not the medium seem to have a handle on what the aftermath of such a nuclear war would be.

You are 'consoled' that there are tensions which could lead to war (but probably won't)? That is an appalling thing to say.

None of these 19 prophecies has happened, and many are mere restatements of the status quo so are not prophecies in any sense of the word.
1 VIOLENT WEATHER - More violent manifestations of the weather will occur, causing devastation to both people and crops

More violent than what? There will always be violent weather from time to time, and occasionally people or crops are caught up in it. This is not prophecy, merely a statement of how the world has always been.

What is this “Frankenstorm”? What is this Hurricane Sandy? Is this not violent?

What is this “Frankenstorm”? What is this Hurricane Sandy? Is this not violent?

Hurricane Sandy, last I heard, was still a class 1 hurricane. Speaking as someone who has actually weathered out (no pun intended) much worse hurricanes than that, it could scarcely be called a "Frankenstorm".

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What is this “Frankenstorm”? What is this Hurricane Sandy? Is this not violent?

that's not the point. what we are telling you is that you can have absolutely no proof of today's meteorological events being more violent than the ones of the past. systematical records of these events are recent. and evidently there was none before man could write. however geological features can teach us we've luckily missed a lot of cataclysmic events such as the Missoula floodsWP

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What is this “Frankenstorm”? What is this Hurricane Sandy? Is this not violent?

Yes, but it's a hurricane. There's hurricanes every year.

I think the current levels of violent weather fit global warming models better than your prophecy.

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Personally, I find the Christian heaven to be Hell in Paradise, plunking that harp and singing praises to their sadist superbeing.
The Islamic version with the 9 levels of heaven, and all those immortal youths pouring wine endlessly while one cavorts with the 72 self-renewing virgins to be much more attractive... praying of course there isn't a mistranslation of "virgin", and the word was "Virginian". Spending eternity with George Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton et al would be "interesting" but not fun!

What is this “Frankenstorm”? What is this Hurricane Sandy? Is this not violent?

As someone located in its path, now comparing predictions to fact, I'd have to say, no, not all that violent. Hurricane Sandy as a violent storm is unimpressive, at least in how I'd categorize storms as violent. Heck, Sandy is just barely a hurricane. What is impressive, however, is its overall size.

The Frankenstorm monicker, by the way, had to do with the expectation of how Sandy would behave in combination with a cold front (now a stationary front) Sandy would encounter 100 miles inland.

Be that as it may, though, and whether you want to classify this as a notably violent storm, you are still willfully evading the point that a prophecy for "violent weather" is trivial and meaningless. There will be violent weather. That's a known fact. If you are impressed by the prophecies of known facts, well, you are not thinking this through.

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